About Iriss

Iriss supports people, workers and organisations to make social work and social care support work better through evidence based innovation. Iriss is a charity that works across Scotland and our principal funder is the Scottish Government.

About the role

The Finance Officer ensures the smooth running of Iriss’s finances, including bookkeeping, invoicing, purchasing, budgeting, grant claims and audit.

Who we are looking for

We are looking for someone who can help keep Iriss running smoothly and efficiently:

• Analysis: You can analyse financials to explain why budgets have over or underspent and what the forecast going forward is.
• Organisation: You will be able to work within structures and deadlines.
• Working in a team: We are a small, busy team that works hard to make best use of everyone’s skills.
• Diplomacy and customer focus: We want everyone who comes into contact with Iriss to have a good experience. You are the kind of person who takes pride in doing excellent work and supporting others.

You will have skills and experience in:

• Bookkeeping: This should include keeping financial records and software (preferably XERO) up to date including invoicing and purchasing.
• Reporting and forecasting: You will have experience producing quarterly/yearly reports for senior management that include a year end forecast and producing draft budgets for the coming year.
• Working with Auditors: You will have experience working with external auditors to produce annual accounts.

You will have knowledge of:

• Financial procedures and systems including XERO, setting and reporting on budgets, payroll and pensions.
• Charity financial reporting.

A typical week in the role

In a typical week in the role, you might be doing the following:

• Updating XERO with the purchase invoices.
• Chasing a client for payment on an overdue invoice.
• Working with the Head of Resources to ensure a planned event is running on budget.
• Taking part in a project retrospective to understand more about Iriss’ work and ensure Iriss is financially stable.

Waverley Care is Scotland’s leading HIV and hepatitis C charity. We are at an exciting point in our history as Scotland strives to reach the goal of zero transmissions by 2030, and we are determined to play an essential role in getting us there. See waverleycare.org/policy-research/gettozero for more information.

The Health Improvement Manager (Minority Ethnic Health) is a new and exciting position, managing a team at Waverley Care which works with Minority Ethnic communities across Glasgow and Lanarkshire to increase awareness about sexual health and blood borne viruses (BBV), in particular HIV and hepatitis B, as well as offering BBV testing and supporting people with a BBV to live well.

Our projects also engage communities to disseminate health messages through peer-led education and awareness raising, provide condoms to community venues for onward distribution, and work in partnership with community groups to ensure no one who may need our service is unable to access it, and this new position will play a key role in helping to shape and manage this work.

The successful candidate will line manage a team of experienced Health Improvement Coordinators who work with Minority Ethnic communities, in particular people from African communities or heritage or people from Chinese communities or heritage. They will also lead on the facilitation of free formula milk provision for babies born to parents living with HIV.

They will work closely with the Senior Health Improvement Managers to support management of these projects, including reporting to funders, representing Waverley Care at external meetings, and working with the team to develop best practice. They will also work closely with Waverley Care’s Development Manager for Minority Ethnic Health to look at the national picture, finding innovative ways to make sure that experiences and persons from minority ethnic communities are involved as Scotland looks to get to zero new HIV transmissions for all by 2030.

We are looking for someone who can bring the following attributes to the role:

• Ability to lead on the management of our work in innovative ways and using your own initiative
• A respected manager who can inspire a staff team to deliver high quality care and support services
• Confidence to represent the charity in a range of different meetings, including meetings with funders and the NHS
• Experience of community outreach/engagement
• Develop strong working relationships across a range of teams and stakeholders who work with us to deliver services
• A demonstrable interest in, and passion for, improving the lives of people affected by blood borne viruses.
• Given the nature of this role, it is a genuine occupational requirement that candidates for this post should identify as being from a Minority Ethnic community.

In return, we offer a supportive environment with a wide range of benefits to staff, including flexible working, enhanced sick pay, enhanced maternity benefit, an employer pension, a Cycle to Work Scheme, external supervision for front line staff, a recognition agreement with UNISON, and opportunities for continuous learning and development.

For enquiries related to this role, please contact: Jo Sykes (jo.sykes@waverleycare.org), Senior Health Improvement Manager.

Generations Working Together (GWT) is looking to recruit enthusiastic, committed, dependable and proactive volunteer trustees to fill two places on our board.

We are looking for trustees who have experience of working in the voluntary, public or private sector who want to become actively involved in progressing intergenerational work across Scotland. In particular, we are seeking trustees with a strong background /expert skills and life experience in one or more of the following areas:

•Marketing and Communications (including digital)

•Protected Characteristics

•Local Politics and Local Government

•Intergenerational Work

•Community Safety

•Health and/or Social Care

•Architecture/Housing/Planning with an interest in Intergenerational Housing and/or Shared Sites

Trustees are appointed for a term of two times three years and are eligible to serve a further three-year term or three one-year terms, after which they must retire from the board. Our Trustees are responsible and accountable for the overall strategic leadership and direction of the organisation and share our vision and passion about promoting strong, generationally connected communities.

We ask for a commitment which involves attending:

•Four online board meetings (normally held on a Wednesday, 5.30pm to 8pm) (however this could alter in the future due to the needs of Trustees)

•The Annual General Meeting (online) – 13th November 2023

•One/two development sessions (in person normally Glasgow) each year to develop and review the corporate plan/manifesto.

•Occasional GWT Conferences/ Parliamentary receptions or other events.

As a small charity it is expected that Board members will take on additional responsibilities between meetings consistent with the aims and outcomes of GWT. This may include membership of task and finish groups, standing committees or specific tasks consistent with their areas of expertise. Much of the subgroup work is done via email and video conferencing.

Organisation profile:

Generations Working Together is the nationally recognised centre of excellence supporting the development and integration of intergenerational work across Scotland. Our mission is to develop, expand and improve IG practice nationwide. Our vision is to live in a Scotland where different generations are more connected, where everyone has opportunities to build relationships that help to create a more inclusive society.

Intergenerational work means relationship-based projects, activities and events where people of different generations, who might not otherwise meet, do things together in positive and creative ways. It includes any activities which purposefully ignore, remove or break down social, environmental, cultural or institutional barriers between generations e.g. ageism, making spaces for older & younger people to meet naturally, get to know each other, share ideas, pass on &/or learn new skills, work together to identify solutions to problems, addressing challenges in their communities, all the while forging relationships and friendships.

As a membership and capacity-building organisation, GWT operate locally and nationally raising awareness, sharing and expanding knowledge and understanding of intergenerational practice and its impact. GWT provide training and wide-ranging resources and organise learning events and facilitate local and thematic networking opportunities, to enable high quality intergenerational activity to take root on the ground & flourish. GWT lead and deliver pilot projects to support and encourage the development and delivery of intergenerational practice in new settings. We also participate in research projects and scan relevant research taking place across the world for distilling and sharing with our members and others.

A short film narrated by our retired chair Alan Hatton-Yeo MBE can be viewed here on our YouTube channel detailing our history and the background of intergenerational work and its growth in the UK.

We have an exciting 3 years ahead of the charity which will see the following events take place:

• 2024 - Six learning roadshows facilitated in Aberdeen, Ayrshire, Dundee, Dumfries, Glasgow and Inverness and a Parliamentary Reception (Holyrood) planned to launch a new publication and announce Excellence Award Winners (11th June 2024)

• 2025 – National Conference to be held in the Highlands celebrating local grassroot work (possibly May or Sept)

• 2026 – Global Intergenerational Conference in Glasgow in partnership with the International Consortium of Intergenerational Programmes (possibly May or Sept)